{"id":7425,"date":"2022-01-26T17:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/?post_type=event&#038;p=7425"},"modified":"2022-03-22T17:46:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T21:46:03","slug":"mad-blackness-rage-resistance-refusal","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/mad-blackness-rage-resistance-refusal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Blackness*: Rage, Resistance, Refusal\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XsfX1N9MWOI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.streamtext.net\/player?event=BCRW_Captions\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Live transcription is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This panel brings together scholars delving into the myriad ways that radical black creativity confronts quotidian anti-black violence and its ensuing traumas. While exploring distinct life histories, geographies and bodies of literature\/performance, the scholarship of La Marr Jurelle Bruce (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 2021), Kelly Baker Josephs (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Madness in Anglophone Caribbean Literature<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 2013), Ther\u00ed Pickens (<em>Black Madness :: Mad Blackness<\/em><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, 2019), and JT Roane (\u201cSpitting Back at Law and Order: Donnetta Hill\u2019s Rage in an Era of Vengeance,\u201d 2021) demystifies and responds to generations of historical and contemporary criminalization of black rage, refusal, and self-possession with careful and complicated portraits of mad black personhood and art-making across the black diaspora. In conversation, we consider how to practice an ethics of defiance against a maddening logic that brands blackness as always already \u201ccrazy.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>Title references Ther\u00ed Pickens&#8217; <\/em>Mad Blackness::Black Madness\u00a0<em>(2019).\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button warning radius\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/mad-blackness-rage-resistance-refusal-tickets-256517198847\">ATTEND<\/a><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Conference Detail<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/event\/living-in-madness-decolonization-creation-healing\/\">47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference<\/a> organized by BCRW is entitled &#8220;Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing.&#8221; The conference will be virtual and sessions will take place over a period of weeks from February to April, 2022.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This conference will explore experiences of madness, disability, survival, and refusal through the frameworks of mad studies, disability justice, and artistic practice. Scholars, artists, activists, and practitioners will interrogate structures of medicalization and institutionalization, engaging in dialogue about the entanglement of psy-disciplines with colonial and nation-building projects predicated on scientific racism, misogyny, xenophobia, transphobia, and eugenics. We ask how structural violence has both created maddening conditions and established the terms by which survivors are pathologized, criminalized and alienated.<\/p>\n<p>Among the questions we want to explore are those posed by conference panelist Camille Robcis in her intellectual history of institutional psychotherapy, <i>Disalienation: Politics, Philosophy, and Radical Psychiatry in Postwar France<\/i> (2021), specifically how movements that have attempted to decolonize and otherwise contest the practices of psychiatry can provide us with frameworks to understand our own positioning vis-\u00e0-vis \u201cthe permanence of extreme-right movements, fascisms real and \u2018in our heads,\u2019 still spreading and gaining force throughout the world.\u201d We take inspiration as well from our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z8ub-pHRvTM&amp;t=1s\">Fall 2021 event with La Marr Jurelle Bruce<\/a>, whose critical discourse about madness encompasses unruliness, radical creativity, and rage in the face of systems that have used the concept of Blackness as disability to foreclose the possibilities of Black freedom. Our conference dialogues will also engage calls for intersectional approaches to abolition and decarceralization address disability and madness, and the imperative to center the experiences of indigenous and Palestinian people resisting psychic oppression while living under occupation.<\/p>\n<p>The impetus for this conference comes as we collectively persist while a virus has exposed structural violence and inadequacy of profit-based systems of care<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and we are also confronted with increased ecological fragility. We are now understandably asking questions about the shakiness of human experience, and how to reckon with what might be called \u201cunlivable states of mind.\u201d War, ecological destruction, land dispossession, occupation and policing, precarious access to shelter, and confinement in a total institution are among the conditions that are maddening, and yet upheld by powerful schemas that place value on profit, property, and hierarchy over collective wellbeing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Gathering together, we explore potential modes of healing. Like seeds we plant without knowing which will root, we pursue collectivity and creativity in order to keep living.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><strong>About the Speakers<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><b>La Marr Jurelle Bruce<\/b>\u00a0(B.A. Columbia; Ph.D. Yale) is a cultural and literary critic, Black\/black studies devotee, first-generation college graduate, and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His scholarship explores and activates black expressive cultures\u2014spanning literature, film, music, theatre, religion, and especially the art and aesthetics of quotidian black life. Winner of the Joe Weixlmann Essay Prize from\u00a0<i>African American Review<\/i>, he has also published in\u00a0<i>American Quarterly<\/i>,\u00a0<i>The Black Scholar<\/i>,\u00a0<i>GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies<\/i>,\u00a0<i>Social Text<\/i>, and\u00a0<i>TDR<\/i>.\u00a0His debut book,\u00a0<i>How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity<\/i>,<i>\u00a0<\/i>was supported by Ford and Mellon fellowships and earned the Nicol\u00e1s Guill\u00e9n Outstanding Book Award. Now he is in the thick of a project on\u2014and experiment in\u2014convergences of love and madness. He sometimes calls it\u00a0<i>The Afromantic<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Kelly Baker Josephs<\/b>\u00a0is Professor of English at York College, City University of New York, and Professor of English and digital humanities at the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.virginia.edu\/title\/4572\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.upress.virginia.edu\/title\/4572&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1642691741842000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1YDTaqLPeo-omyqYtEBRbm\">Disturbers of the Peace: Representations of Insanity in Anglophone Caribbean Literature<\/a><\/i>\u00a0(University of Virginia Press, 2013)\u00a0and\u00a0coeditor of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/the-digital-black-atlantic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.upress.umn.edu\/book-division\/books\/the-digital-black-atlantic&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1642691741843000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2aU0_I-SplxnOaEfhREEgo\"><i>The Digital Black Atlantic<\/i><\/a> (University of Minnesota Press, 2021).<\/p>\n<p><b>Ther\u00ed Pickens<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is Professor of English at Bates College, focusing on Arab American, African American literatures and cultures, disability, philosophy, and literary theory. Her books include <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">New Body Politics: Narrating Arab and Black Identity in the Contemporary United States <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Routledge, 2014) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Black Madness :: Mad Blackness <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Duke University Press, 2019), and the edited collection <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arab American Aesthetics: LIterature, Material Culture, Film, and Theatre <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Routledge 2018). Her critical writing has appeared in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hypatia, MELUS, Journal of Literary and Cultural Disability Studies, Disability Studies Quarterly, Al-Jadid, Women and Performance, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Journal of Ethnic American Literature,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as well as the ground-breaking anthology, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Blackness and Disability: Critical Examinations and Cultural Interventions<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Defying the GLobal Language: Perspectives in Ethnic Studies<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Omnium Gatherum Quarterly, Diode, The Journal, Wordgathering, Squ** Valley Journal, Black Renaissance\/Renaissance Noire, Save the Date,<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Disability Studies Quarterly<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Her original drama writing has been performed at the NJ State theater.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>J.T. Roane<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is Assistant Professor of African and African American Studies in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. He received his Ph.D. in history from Columbia University and he is a 2008 graduate of the Carter G. Woodson Institute at the University of Virginia. He currently serves as the lead of the Black Ecologies Initiative at ASU&#8217;s Institute for Humanities Research. He is the former co-senior editor of Black Perspectives, the digital platform of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS). Roane&#8217;s scholarly essays have appeared in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Souls Journal<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Review of Black Political Economy<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Current Research in Digital History<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Signs<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. His work has also appeared in venues such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Post<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Brooklyn Rail<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Pacific Standard<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Immanent Frame<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Accessibility<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Live transcription and ASL interpretation will be provided. Please email any additional access needs to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:skreitzb@barnard.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skreitzb@barnard.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This event is free and open to all.<\/p>\n<p>Streaming information will be provided closer to the dates of the events.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Image Detail<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7426 imgix-fluid alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tessa-mars-a-vision-of-peace.jpeg\" alt=\"Tessa Mars, A Vision of Peace, Harmony, and Good Intelligence\" width=\"2048\" height=\"2048\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tessa-mars-a-vision-of-peace.webp 2048w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tessa-mars-a-vision-of-peace-300x300.webp 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tessa-mars-a-vision-of-peace-1024x1024.webp 1024w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tessa-mars-a-vision-of-peace-768x768.webp 768w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tessa-mars-a-vision-of-peace-1536x1536.webp 1536w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/tessa-mars-a-vision-of-peace-999x999.webp 999w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tessa Mars, &#8220;A Vision of Peace, Harmony, and Good Intelligence&#8221; (2020)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This panel in the 47th annual Scholar and Feminist Conference, &#8220;Living in Madness: Decolonization, Creation, Healing,&#8221; brings together scholars delving into the myriad ways that radical black creativity confronts quotidian anti-black violence and its ensuing traumas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7426,"template":"","tags":[662,1371],"class_list":["post-7425","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-blackness","tag-madness"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7437,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/7425\/revisions\/7437"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/staging\/2435\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}